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The medical industry, when presented with a chronic illness, instead of trying to cure it, sees it as a source of recurring revenue. And then that’s not even go
by dimal 2y ago
The medical industry, when presented with a chronic illness, instead of trying to cure it, sees it as a source of recurring revenue. And then that’s not even good enough. The consumers are captive, so they find a way to gouge them.
I wish people would stop calling what we have a healthcare system. We have a medical industry, which seeks to provide a minimum of medical services for maximum profit. The system is working exactly as designed.
- theGnuMe 2y agoThis is patently untrue.
- keyboardcaper 2y agoExplain how we keep treating essential tremor as a disease of the elderly to be managed with CNS depressant drugs, when we have known for decades the disease is entirely caused by a single substance (harmane) which can be mostly avoided by stopping coffee, tobacco and meat consumption? There are plenty of other examples.
- PoignardAzur 2y ago> which can be mostly avoided by stopping coffee, tobacco and meat consumption? Wait, so you're implying the medical industry is responsible for people eating meat and drinking coffee?
- keyboardcaper 2y agoNo, just that they are taking advantage of status quo.
- filoleg 2y agoI do not buy their take either. However, a more generous interpretation of their comment would probably sound something more like “some substances/products get banned on the grounds of being detrimental to people’s health, but this isn’t happening to coffee/meat despite their claimed dangers. This must be due to the medical industry lobbying or controlling all world government bodies, so that the industry can extract more revenue from people.” It is still a conspiracy theory full of holes, but imo that feels more representative of what the grandparent likely meant.
- keyboardcaper 2y agoIt has nothing to do with coffee, tobacco and meat per se and everything to do with how coffee, tobacco and meat is prepared for human consumption. It is the pyrolytic processes which form harmane from amino acids.
- Veserv 2y agoThe textbook example of course being Sovaldi [1] the cure for Hepatitis C that was invented and then sold for ~84 K$ when introduced which massively undercut the prevailing treatments which cost ~40 K$ per year for a lifetime (40+ years of treatment on average). Turns out, the shareholders really preferred getting a pile of money over other people who are not themselves getting a even bigger pile of money. Bunch of moneygrubbers ruining a good gig. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofosbuvir https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofosbuvir